steak knife

noun

: a table knife with a sharp often serrated blade

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One pair literally draws blood with a steak knife but insists their relationship is fine; another competes over which one of them would get over their breakup faster. Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2025 All that audiences at the Palace Theatre get is a picture of steak knives on the preshow curtain, then a picture of a Cadillac at intermission and then the text of the truism itself. Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 1 Apr. 2025 Anderson’s mother found what appeared to be a steak knife sticking out of her daughter’s neck. Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 1 Apr. 2025 Each set comes with four five-inch steak knives, six sets of chopsticks and a wood keepsake box to store it all in. Rachel Dube, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for steak knife

Word History

First Known Use

1870, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of steak knife was in 1870

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“Steak knife.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/steak%20knife. Accessed 3 May. 2025.

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